Windows Movie Maker is the official video editor developed by Microsoft. It supports different type of video and offers an intuitive interface.

Key features

Editing: Windows Movie Maker is mainly designed to edit videos. It provides all items needed for that, such as applying effects or removing undesirable parts. For that, the user only has to import the video and start the edition process.

Applying effects: the advantage with this software is that it provides many video effects that can be applied easily. It has a preview option to check in real time every change made on the video.

Music and narration: one of the particularities of Windows Movie Maker is that it supports importing music and synchronizing it with the video. In addition to that, it is also possible to add text to the sequence like subtitles.

Cutting and assembling: the software supports cropping video. This option allows the user to divide the video into several parts and deleting any part if he wants. Also, it can reassemble sequences of various video.

System requirements

Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8

File size: 1.18 MB

Pros

The movies created can be saved in different formats according to the user needs.

Windows Movie Maker is completely free.

Cons

For Vista users, it is required to disable 3D Aero to be able to use Windows Movie Maker.